Thursday, November 13, 2008

I picked up Wrath at lunch today. After installing I logged on to an 800-person queue for Sargeras. I quickly switched to Skywall, which only had an 80-person queue. I took my hunter to Howling Fjord and did a few of the quests. Then I realized that I really wanted to play my paladin first, so I went back to Sargeras. By this time the queue had grown to 1300 people.

A long time later, I logged in with Coriel and started doing the Borean Tundra quests. Borean Tundra is a bit more crowded than Howling Fjord, but not too bad.

For now, I've decided to go with Retribution and mostly solo. I've decided not to rush to 80, but take my time. To that end, I've turned off Instant Quest Text. It actually does make a difference in immersion, I find. With Instant Quest Text, I barely read the quest, but having the text fade in forces me to slow down, to actually read the backstory behind the quest.

I am keeping a medium pace tbh while leveling. Even if you try to rush things, there are lots of quests to take you back and forth. A few trips and you will register the are, get in grips with the quests, enjoy the scenery etc. I am in no rush to go to the next bit of content but I won't stay idle for long.

I had the chance to do Utgarde and Nexus with some guildies while specced retribution and it was quite fun. We actualy did UK twice :p

Both starting areas are quite nice. Sit down and `learn' the map, enjoy the scenery. I take screenshots for future reference. But at the same time I do want to keep leveling up to be on par with my gmates and avoid dead periods while they group and raid and I am hunting boars :p

I'm still waiting for my CE WotLK to arrive, but even if it was already here, I'm probably not going to start running in right away. While I'm psyched about the new content, and rolling my Death Knight, I really don't feel like dealing with lag (which I really expect in the DK starting zone), or queues, or any of that crap. I'm going to be busy playing Fallout 3 (which I just picked up today), and finishing off Red Alert 3. I'll see about poking around Sunday... maybe Saturday night at the earliest.